similar to: habtm, multi select, and validation

All, I''m building model objects for existing tables that I cannot modify. In AWDWR, Dave says "Note that our join table has no id column...The second reason for not including an id column in the join table is that AR automatically includes all columns from the join tables when accessing rows using it. If the join table included a column called id, its id would overwrite the id

Hi all, I am a newbie to Rails. Please enlighten me on how to do this appropriately, the Rails and the Ruby way: Suppose I have a Recipe model. Let''s simplify things and pretend that it has only 2 attributes, a :name and the other is a ''category_id''. In the recipes table, category_id is a foreign key to field id of table categories. We also assume that I have generate

In AWDWR David says (pg 232), "When a Join Wants to Be a Model: While a many-to-many relation with attributes can often seem like the obvious choice, it?s often a mirage for a missing domain model. When it is, it can be advantageous to convert this relationship into a real model and decorate it with a richer set of behavior. This lets you accompany the data with methods. As an example,

Hi I''m trying to use restful resources with recipes and ingredients I''ve set up the models using scaffold_resource. A recipe can have many ingredients and an ingredient can be in many recipes. I''ve set the relationships up using a through. I now want to display a recipe with a list of ingredients but I''m unsure how to proceed. Should I use nested resources and

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

Hi, I found it a while ago, an add-on to Rails for supporting movable select boxes, but I searched through the wiki and the mailing list and couldnt find what I was looking for. I was hoping someone might know of or remember something about the project. Thanks, Dylan.

This works : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end But (when I add validation) this does not work : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category validates_length_of :category, :within => 6..20 validates_uniqueness_of :category, :message => "already exists" end thank you -- View this message in context:

I have two models that have a habtm relationship and it only seems to be working in one direction. The two models are "recipe" and "msn_lifestyles_feed" with a join table called "msn_lifestyles_feeds_recipes" the tables for msn_lifestyles_feed and msn_lifestyles_feeds_recipes are in the same database and the recipe table is in a completely different database. When

Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hi there, I have a question on what would be the best way to save a HABTM model. A posting habtm categories, and a category habtm postings. class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :postings end class Posting < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :categories end In my blog_controller, where the actual posting is saved, is where I think I''m

For a while, I''ve been getting that HMT is replacing HABTM. It appears that HMT can do all of what HABTM can do and more. The question is: Should I stop using HABTM? Let''s take a simple case: A case has many categories For a given category, there are certain valid statuses Category has_and_belongs_to_many :statuses Status has_and_belongs_to_many :categories Question: Is

Hey gang, How does STI work with HABTM? For instance...let''s say I have the following models ----- Category < ActiveRecord::Base Item < ActiveRecord::Base Product < Item Deal < Item ----- Each product or deal can have categories. Would I then setup Item with has_and_belongs_to_many :categories, then create a table categories_items ??? Is there a better way to do it?

Hi, I am trying to restrict duplicate has_and_belongs_to_many associations. I tried to find support for a association validation for duplicates but couldn''t find anything. I understand I could use :uniq=>true on the model association but this would only prevent it from displaying duplicates, I want to stop duplicate associations being inserted in the first place. I have a vague

This may have been asked/answered before - if so, i apologise... I have the following table layout in a habtm relationship: ------------ ----------------------- -------------- | products | ----| categories_products |-----| categories | ------------ ----------------------- -------------- What would be the best way to pull out all the products for a given category? At the

Consider the following scenario: Book has_and_belong_to_many Category. In other words, a category may have a lot of books, and a book can have more than one category. What is the best practice to query all books related to some specified categories. For example, if I have following books "From Java To Ruby" - Category: Java, Ruby "Ruby Programming" - Category: Ruby

I''m 100% positive this has come up multiple times before. I just can''t find it for some reason. I''ve got a HABTM relationship, we''ll just say Item HABTM categories. When I edit an Item via a form, I''d like there to be check boxes for all the categories, and they''ll obviously be checked if an Item has a relationship with a particular

Like with simple table editing, there are also typical ways of how a user usually interacts with one-to-many or many-to-many relations. For example, one would show the fields of one row of table1 in the screen and below a line-by-line view of all associated entries in table2. Then, one could press an "Edit" button and add or delete rows from table2 to this entry of table1,

Hello, I''m stuck, I''ve got a model Product and would like to add a new model called Category. Furthermore, I want to set up a many2many relationship between the mentioned models. the problem is that I do not know how to set the primary key in the categories_products table. this is what I''ve got in my migration file: create_table :categories do |t| t.column :name,

Hello all This is my first post so excuse the basic question. (and any repeats I just got an email saying this post was too big so I have re-submitted a smaller version) I was following the thread on http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/038988.html regarding the STI on HABTM for RoR. I have a very similar problem and was hoping for some help. I have the

Hello, I was wondering whether there is a nice Rubyesque way of selecting from a pair of HABTM models where one of them is inherited from another object. Here is the situation: I have a ''posts'' table from which ''replies'' and ''articles'' are inherited. Articles have_and_belong_to_many categories, but neither posts nor replies do (it just does